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| | | | | | | | 49. Re: We're in some pretty shit now, man... | | | | by Zi |  | | | at Fri 14 Mar 2:28pm | score of 1 | | in reply to comment 26 | | | | | |
Yeah! Aliens, that's a treasure trove of great quotes!
"In case you haven't been paying attention to current events, we just got our asses kicked, pal!"
"I say we take off and nuke the entire site from orbit. That's the only way to be sure."
"We'd better get back, 'cause it'll be dark soon, and they mostly come at night... mostly."
"Oh dear Lord Jesus, this ain't happening, man... This can't be happening, man! This isn't happening!"
"My mommy always said there were no monsters - no real ones - but there are."
And of course:
""Get away from her, you bitch!"
So it goes. - Kurt Vonnegut
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| | | | | 297. Re: We're in some pretty shit now, man... | | | | by Malach | | | | at Sat 15 Mar 4:14pm | score of 1.5 interesting | | in reply to comment 49 | | | | | |
Alien Resurrection had its moments as well.. my personal favourite, from the stereotypical touch guy (with strangely correct grammar)...
"I am not the one with whom to fuck."
To truly know your enemy, first you must become his friend; then you can select the most fitting method for his demise.
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| | | | | | 2. One liners... | | | | by ejdopey | | | | at Fri 14 Mar 1:28pm | score of 1 | | | | | | |
How about: ' Bitch better have my money... '
Or maybe: ' I'll be back '
And then there's: 'Tis my duty to please that booty...'
And of course: ' ...Consider that a divorce.'
And to finish it off - from a fish called wanda: 'Fuck off or I'll kill you!'
Oneliners plasticians?
And the cat came back the very next day..... yaddy yadda...
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| | | | | | | | 18. Re: Does TV count? | | | | by jenmac |  | | | at Fri 14 Mar 1:47pm | score of 2 funny | | in reply to comment 3 | | | | | |
If it does, I vote for this little gem from Action, delivered by Buddy Hackett (who is facing a pimp; both of them have guns drawn on each other):
"Go ahead, shoot me! I'm 75 years old! I have one gonad! One kidney! One lung! I have to take Viagra just to keep from wetting my shoes! Who are you frightening?"
Is it sticky? Would it kill you? -- snut_rucket's son at the La Brea tar pits
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| | | | | | | | | 6. Sorry, don't have just one fav | | | | by Tashtego | | | | at Fri 14 Mar 1:35pm | score of 1 | | | | | | |
Well,let's not start sucking each other's dicks quite yet.
and from the same movie:
Well I'm a mushroom-cloud-laying motherfucker, motherfucker!
Liberals apparently make huge sweeping generalizations without one iota of evidence to back them up.
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| | | | | | 314. Best Samuel L. line ever | | | | by popfan101 | | | | at Sat 15 Mar 9:48pm | score of 1 | | in reply to comment 6 | | | | | |
And one of my all-time favorites-
"If I hadn't gotten my dick blown off in 'Nam I'd whip it out and piss in 'yo face!"
From "The Search for One-eyed Jimmy"
Chris
-Pretty good, now that i'm 239,000 miles from The Cure
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| | | | | | | 8. "I've got a bad feeling about this." | | | | by nme! | | | | at Fri 14 Mar 1:38pm | score of 1 | | | | | | |
I'm voting for that one as the single best one-liner of all time. Why? Versatility:
Parties where your ex is also attending and the only beer is Grain Belt.
Weddings. Funerals.
When the guy you buy your weed from gets a haircut and starts working a telemarketing job.
Any time a College professor says "We're gonna do things a little differently today."
Anytime Dumpster Juice takes the stage (MN and WI only)
This classic line is appropriate in all these situations, and pretty much anyone else you could imagine. Plus, 95% of people I know or have known understand what you're getting at. There is none of that awkward well-I-was-quoting-movie-X-and-here's-why-it's-relevant bullshit.
So, to sum up, shouldn't I be working?
-nme!
Virgo: (Aug. 23 - Sept. 22) It's all over but the shouting, but don't worry: It's going to be great shouting.
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| | | | | | 89. Re: "I've got a bad feeling about this." | | | | by HavDog | | | | at Fri 14 Mar 3:14pm | score of 2 brilliant | | in reply to comment 8 | | | | | |
You've got the actor right, but the movie and line wrong. I think the single funniest one-liner in movie history is "No Ticket" uttered by Harrison Ford as Indiana Jones in the film IJ and the Last Crusade. Maybe not as versatile, but it was fall out of your chair funny. Come on, you know I'm right.
HavDog
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| | | | | 96. Re: "No Ticket" | | | | by Maddog-20_20 | | | | at Fri 14 Mar 3:30pm | score of 1 | | in reply to comment 89 | | | | | |
You've got the actor right, but the movie and line wrong.
Hrrrm, now you've got the line right, but the actor and movie wrong. :-)
Obviously, Kevin Smith's saying 'No Ticket' as Silent Bob in Dogma was a much funnier version - especially since we were waiting for him to speak eventually...
Nice homage you've got to admit...
Kevin
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| | | | | 331. Re: Speaking of Kevin Smith ... | | | | by musiquestar | | | | at Sun 16 Mar 6:52pm | score of 1 | | in reply to comment 224 | | | | | |
Sadly enough, my brother and friends have gotten to the point where seeing "37" is enough to envoke laughter and a stream of other Clerks quotes. The cartoon is also great...
"No. Wait. We don't have to talk about the Matrix. We can talk about... stuff. Sports. Chicks who've broken our hearts. Um, the Matrix."
We visited the Quick Stop on the way back from a New York trip. The worker said they get at least a visit per day. It's a pillgrammage of sorts...
Your fantasies are unlikely, but beautiful.
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| | | | | | | | 63. Re: As the police search Nora Charles's armoire... | | | | by CaptainLiberal | | | | at Fri 14 Mar 2:40pm | score of 1 | | in reply to comment 11 | | | | | |
I'm so glad that someone remembers Nick and Nora besides me. And that's one of their great lines.
Come on. Let's get something to eat. I'm thirsty.
Every dream turns into something on a T-shirt -- Shriekback
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| | | | | 195. Re: As the police search Nora Charles's armoire... | | | | by jenmac | | | | at Fri 14 Mar 7:47pm | score of 1.5 funny | | in reply to comment 63 | | | | | |
Oh, I love that one. It is actually a struggle for me to not quote the whole movie.
"How did you like Grant's Tomb?" "It was lovely. I'm having a copy made for you."
"It says you were shot six times in the tabloids." "That's not true. He didn't get near my tabloids."
Is it sticky? Would it kill you? -- snut_rucket's son at the La Brea tar pits
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| | | | | | | 143. Re: Right movie, wrong line... | | | | by tomaxxamot | | | | at Fri 14 Mar 5:23pm | score of 1 | | in reply to comment 67 | | | | | |
And...
"PC Load Letter? What the fuck does that mean?"
"Oh, and remember, next Friday is Hawaiian shirt day. So, you know, if you want to go ahead and wear a Hawaiian shirt and jeans."
I can't find an exact quote of the movie's best line though... it's the bit where Milton talks about how he could see "... the squirrels... and they were merry."
Spread the News - the Ego has Landed.
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| | | | | 371. Re: humorous one-liners work | | | | by slavdude | | | | at Wed 19 Mar 10:43am | score of 1 | | in reply to comment 290 | | | | | |
I couldn't resist a couple more:
"I have one rule--well, actually, two rules: one, I don't date musicians, and two, I don't kill people." Erika Eleniak in Under Siege
"People on 'Ludes should not drive." Sean Penn in Fast Times at Ridgemont High
Tomorrow I will be sober, but you will still be ugly.
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| | | | | | | 58. Re: Blazing Saddles | | | | by timnet | | | | at Fri 14 Mar 2:37pm | score of 1 | | in reply to comment 13 | | | | | |
Ah, yes, but who can forget:
"Yo, where the white women at?" (All-time super-duper classic.)
"Candygram for Mongo!"
"No one ever whip Mongo before. Mongo kind of like it."
"Tell the guv'ner I said ... ow!" (Followed by: "Tell the guv'ner you said 'ow!'")
"I extend to you this laurel ... and hardy handshake."
"In the Vatican?" "Kinky."
"I feel like I wouldn't like me if I met me." -- Tegan and Sara
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| | | | | 266. More Blazing Saddles | | | | by JackH | | | | at Sat 15 Mar 10:48am | score of 1 | | in reply to comment 13 | | | | | |
"We'll take the (n-word here) and the chinks, but we don't want the Irish!"
The prayer - "Will we have the strength, or are we just jerking off?"
"They're the salt of the earth, the common clay of the New West. You know - morons."
"Shitkicker."
"If you demonstrate a personality deficit in comparison to the likes of John Kerry, you've got major problems" - Anon
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| | | | | | | | | 16. I like... | | | | by greta | | | | at Fri 14 Mar 1:46pm | score of 1 | | | | | | |
"I think we're not in Kansas anymore"
"It's ALIVE!"
"Use the Force, Luke"
"It's like Heaven, only better, because there are no Christians there."
Fool me once, shame on you; fool me twice, I'm a dumbass
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| | | | | | | 98. Re: The Shortest & Most Appropriate One Liner... | | | | by splount | | | | at Fri 14 Mar 3:32pm | score of 1 | | in reply to comment 32 | | | | | |
I thought it was "Mrs. Robinson, are you trying to seduce me?"
When doubted by others I like to whip this out:
"I find your lack of faith disturbing." - in my best Darth Vader voice, which of course sounds nothing like James Earl Jones for some reason.
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| | | | | 220. Re: The Shortest & Most Appropriate One Liner... | | | | by Nameless Cynic | | | | at Fri 14 Mar 11:03pm | score of 1.5 funny | | in reply to comment 98 | | | | | |
...in my best Darth Vader voice, which of course sounds nothing like James Earl Jones for some reason. You know, neither does mine. On a good day, I sound like Hayden Christensen.
Sadly, most days I just sound like Jake Lloyd.
Sentio aliquos togatos contra me conspirare
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| | | | | 336. Re: The Shortest & Most Appropriate One Liner... | | | | by Atlasshrugged00 | | | | at Sun 16 Mar 7:22pm | score of 1 | | in reply to comment 316 | | | | | |
You win emperor.
In the same vein I always liked:
"She turned me into a newt...well I got better."
"Bring out your dead!"
OR (especially timely)
"I fart in your general direction, your mother was a hamster and your father smelled of elderberries..."
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| | | | | | | | | | | | 24. The Self-Preservation Society | | | | by Wang | | | | at Fri 14 Mar 1:57pm | score of 1 | | | | | | |
"Too many notes."
"Do you have liesense for you muenkey?"
"Boomchuckaluckalucka, boomchuckaluckalucka!"
"Ruprecht! Don't make me get the genital cuff."
"Friend! Friend!" (said in appropriately deep
Frankenvoice. Combined with an overbearing embrace, this line serves as an ideal excuse for groping a witless female.)
I must agree with "Two dollars! Two dollars!"
Two others from same movie:
"It's alive! It's alive!"
"Damn shame when folks be throwing away a perfectly good white boy like that."
Never heard of The Italian Job? Unforgivable. What about The League of Gentlemen or Big Deal on Madonna Street?
Shit, here comes my supervisor.
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| | | | | | | 25. Excuse me, I believe you have my stapler | | | | by asthmaticeog | | | | at Fri 14 Mar 1:57pm | score of 2 funny | | | | | | |
Office Space, arguably the source of fave Plastic word "assclown," yields the following:
"Good luck with your layoffs, alright? I hope your firings go really, really well."
"It's not that I'm lazy, it's that I just don't care. "
"I did absolutely nothing, and it was everything that I hoped it could be!"
Bob: "Looks like you've been missing quite a bit of work lately."
Peter: "Well, I wouldn't say I've been MISSING it, Bob."
Perfect is the enemy of good.
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| | | | | | 187. Office Space as the Source of Assclown | | | | by mUrielw | | | | at Fri 14 Mar 7:31pm | score of 2 funny | | in reply to comment 25 | | | | | |
Office Space may have been the film to popularize or even inadvertently invent our beloved term "assclown", but I do not believe that assclown as the single noun we use today was the usage intended in the film. The most common interpretation of Michael Bolton's line referring to Micheal Bolton as a "no-talent assclown", but I a more probable intentional statement is "no-talent-ass clown", with a "ass" being sort of an intensive. This is a semiregionalism, so its not surprising it was interpreted as assclown, but in any event it's to our linguistic benefit.
Assclown, assclown, assclown.
"This young man will come to understand that aging is about humilation prevention and management." - Rubberstamp
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| | | | | 222. You're forgetting the best of the best! | | | | by DreamingReal | | | | at Fri 14 Mar 11:19pm | score of 1 | | in reply to comment 25 | | | | | |
"'PC Load Letter'? What the fuck does that mean?"
"Why does it say 'Paper Jam' when there is no paper jam?! One I dese days, I swear, I just kick dese piece of shit out dee window!"
"If you could just go ahead and do that from now on, that would be grrrrreeeaaaattttt."
... with liberty and justice for all* (*Some restrictions may apply. See AG Ashcroft for details.)
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| | | | | | 27. Steering back to war... | | | | by stankow | | | | at Fri 14 Mar 2:02pm | score of 1 | | | | | | |
My personal favorite line from a war movie*:
"We're not here to do the decent thing. We're here to follow fuckin' orders!"
* -- Before anyone spouts off with Full Metal Jacket stuff, I maintain that it was two distinct films -- a boot camp movie and a war movie. All the good stuff is from the boot camp movie.
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| | | | | | 33. So many to choose from... | | | | by dave78981 | | | | at Fri 14 Mar 2:13pm | score of 1 | | in reply to comment 27 | | | | | |
Private Pyle, I'm gonna give you three seconds, exactly three fuckin' seconds to wipe that stupid grin off your face or I will gouge out your eyeballs and skull fuck you!
Bullshit! It looks to me like the best part of you ran down the crack of your mama's ass and ended up as a brown stain on the mattress.
There is no racial bigotry here. We do not look down on niggers, kikes, wops or greasers. Here, you are all equally worthless.
From Apocalypse Now:
I love the smell of napalm in the morning.
Well, as I always say, a family of freaks is better than no family at all.
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| | | | | 37. Re: Steering back to war... | | | | by MAYORBOB | | | | at Fri 14 Mar 2:18pm | score of 1 | | in reply to comment 27 | | | | | |
It was indeed two movies, George. And the Boot Camp was so true to life that it never struck a bad chord ****SPOILER WARNING****(other than Pyle blowing away the DI and then himself). The half in Vietnam sucks high and hard IMHO.
Tending to final details.
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| | | | | 60. OT: My Vietnam Jacket | | | | by Ajax | | | | at Fri 14 Mar 2:38pm | score of 1 | | in reply to comment 37 | | | | | |
Well, the captain asking Private Joker why his helmet had a peace symbol on one side and "Born To Kill" on the other was a nice bit (paraphrasing here):
"It represents the dichotomy of man, sir."
"The what?"
But yeah, that's only ten seconds of the last half-hour of the movie, so you're right.
"Coca-Cola® and Armageddon® / We like it, like it, yes we do!" -- Clutch.
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| | | | | 127. Re: OT: My Vietnam Jacket | | | | by norska79 | | | | at Fri 14 Mar 4:30pm | score of 1 | | in reply to comment 60 | | | | | |
I believe the correct quote is that it represents "the duality of man."
There are other great lines from the second half, like all the Orwellian double-speak they're supposed to use in Stars and Stripes. The other amusing sequence being Joker's interview as to why he joined the Marines (the oft quoted "go to exotic places, meet new and exciting people, and kill them."
Norska
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| | | | | | | 366. Re: Who could forget Faye channeling Joan? | | | | by NomiMalone | | | | at Mon 17 Mar 1:03pm | score of 1 | | in reply to comment 157 | | | | | |
Or, to her maid: "I'm not mad at you, Helga*, I'm mad at the dirt."
*I'm not entirely sure that was the name of the maid, but whenever I snarl this line at my roommate, that's what I call him...
I'm loud, and I'm vulgar, and I wear the pants in the house because someone's got to, but I am not a monster. I'm not!
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| | | | | | | 81. UHF | | | | by mmintboy | | | | at Fri 14 Mar 3:05pm | score of 1 | | in reply to comment 30 | | | | | |
Or the derivative "Badgers? We don't need no stinking Badgers...
...when I first saw the Treasure of the Sierra Madre, I laughed out loud in the middle of my Drama class. Judgeing by the puzzled looks of my classmates I guess I was the only student who went through a Weird Al phase.
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| | | | | 241. Re: "Badges? We don't need no stinking badges." | | | | by phenry | | | | at Sat 15 Mar 3:33am | score of 1 | | in reply to comment 30 | | | | | |
The exact quote is "I don't have to show you any stinking badges!" No one ever remembers that the bandito was actually grammatically correct.
phh | Away for 3 years and still in the karma top 50! Woo hoo!
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| | | | | | | 34. The Godfather Magilla: | | | | by MAYORBOB | | | | at Fri 14 Mar 2:14pm | score of 1 | | | | | | |
"Leave the gun. Take the cannoli."
"I'll make him an offer he can't refuse."
"Some people will pay a lot of money for that information, but then your daugther would lose a father, instead of gaining a husband."
"Fredo, you're my older brother and I love you, but don't ever take sides with anyone against the family again."
"I don't feel I have to wipe everybody out, Tom. Just my enemies."
"It was you Fredo. I know it was you. You broke my heart. You broke my heart."
"There are many things my father taught me here in this room. He taught me: keep your friends close, but your enemies closer."
"If anything in this life is certain, if history has taught us anything, it is that you can kill anyone."
"This is the business we chose."
"Just when I thought that I was out they pull me back in."
Tending to final details.
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| | | | | | 35. The Way of the Gun | | | | by Brown25 | | | | at Fri 14 Mar 2:15pm | score of 1 | | | | | | |
"Money is what you take to the grocery store. It's what you get out of the ATM. Fifteen million dollars is not money. It's a motive with a universal adaptor on it."
"karma is only justice without the satisfaction"
And when Ryan Phillipe delivered the line
"Shut that cunt's mouth before I come over there and fuck-start her head!"
it silenced a room half full of chatty people in my apartment, which humorously paralleled the chatty crowd it silenced in the movie.
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| | | | | | | | 136. Re: Two favorites from an underrated classic . . . | | | | by BigBoote66 | | | | at Fri 14 Mar 4:53pm | score of 1 | | in reply to comment 36 | | | | | |
"I've got a head for business and a bod for sin."
That's memorable all right. My friends and I always use that line as the hallmark of Melanie Griffith's lousy acting. Any time you see her in a preview or commercial, you had to immediately say, in grating nasal monotone with a vacant expression "I've-got-a-mind-for-business-and-a-bod-for-sin".
-BbT
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| | | | | | | 151. Re: Mine's not anglocentric | | | | by tomaxxamot | | | | at Fri 14 Mar 5:44pm | score of 1 | | in reply to comment 38 | | | | | |
Would a mistranslated line from the wretched, american dub of a brilliant Hong-Kong classic qualify as anglocentric or not? Because I've always loved quoting:
Alan: I'd like to move to Antarctica when all this is over.
Tequila: Antarctica, but why? It's always cold there.
Alan: Yes, but is is also always light. And it would be nice to be in the light all the time after all this darkness!
*Elevator doors open, and the two return to their business of killing the fifty-gajillion triad members who have taken over the hospital*
For maximum humor value, imagine the above being voiced by high school drama dropouts trying desperately to sound earnest. How even Hollywood could allow one of Chow Yun Fat's best performances to be so thoroughly ruined by dubbing and poor translation is beyond me.
Spread the News - the Ego has Landed.
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| | | | | 190. Re: Mine's not anglocentric | | | | by Minister of Inferior | | | | at Fri 14 Mar 7:33pm | score of 1 | | in reply to comment 151 | | | | | |
I'd like to nominate the Swedish translation of "Harley Davidson and the Marlboro Man" to the Worst Translation Ever Prize. At one point in that movie one of the main characters says: "Forget it, I don't want to spend the rest of my life behind bars!" The translation of that line is words to the effect of "Forget it, I don't want to spend the rest of my life in a bar!" I challenge you to come up with something worse.
Thankfully, I haven't seen the movie you quote from, but it for some reason reminds me of one of Anakin's lines in AOC. In a conversation with Queen Amidala he says something like: "I don't like the sand. It is hard and rough. Not like you. You're soft and smooth." Anyone who can say that with a straight face deserves an Oscar.
someone you trust is one of us
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| | | | | | | 350. Re: Possible best last line from a movie... | | | | by lucas_m | | | | at Mon 17 Mar 7:05am | score of 1 | | in reply to comment 332 | | | | | |
I can no longer sit back and allow Communist infiltration, Communist indoctrination, Communist subversion and the international Communist conspiracy to sap and impurify all of our precious bodily fluids.
Moi, j'aime ricocher.
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| | | | | | | 121. I can't help it.... | | | | by ep0nym0us | | | | at Fri 14 Mar 4:20pm | score of 1 | | in reply to comment 40 | | | | | |
I saw a film called "Buckaroo Banzai" many years ago.
Are you referring to that remake they did with all the dwarves?
(whew. now I can go about my business.)
"his facts were often shaky, but his convictions were deep and abiding"
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| | | | | 265. Re: Buckaroo Bonazi | | | | by SacredGroundChuck | | | | at Sat 15 Mar 10:41am | score of 1 | | in reply to comment 40 | | | | | |
I still have my Team Banzai headband.
"Home is where you wear your hat."
"Where are we going?" "PLANET TEN!" "When will we be there?" "REAL SOON!"
"What's that watermelon doing in that press?" "I'll tell you later."
"Now lissen here, sonny, you give me that gizmo and I'll give you this crisp, brand new, twenty dollar bill."
"Race riots in New Jersey?"
"Hey, hey... don't be mean. Remember... no matter where you go, there you are."
"Shut up, John Bigbootie, you coward! You are the most cowardly thing I have ever met!" (Followed by Christopher Lloyd giving John Lithgow the finger, one of film's finest moments.)
I could go on, but now I have to go watch the thing again...
"Did you know that the human brain is the only computer in the universe made of meat?"
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| | | | | | 41. Hasn't anyone seen "Some Like it Hot"? | | | | by Dave2 | | | | at Fri 14 Mar 2:23pm | score of 1.5 scholarly | | | | | | |
"Nobody's Perfect."
But my personal favorite is from "They Live":
"I came here to chew bubble gum -- and to kick
ass . . . and I'm all out of bubble gum."
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| | | | | | 111. Re: Hasn't anyone seen "Some Like it Hot"? | | | | by gonzocanuck | | | | at Fri 14 Mar 4:05pm | score of 1 | | in reply to comment 41 | | | | | |
Yup! I adore that movie. Jack Lemmon, Tony Curtis, Marilyn Monroe...fabulous! I can hear Tony Curtis in my head - "You're NOT a girl! You're a GUY! Why would a guy wanna marry a guy?"
You've got to coax him slow, that's the only way that he'll confess.
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| | | | | | 42. My Americentric Pics | | | | by SacredGroundChuck | | | | at Fri 14 Mar 2:23pm | score of 1 | | | | | | |
Pardon me for being too lazy to look up IMDB.
"Get away from her, you BITCH!" from Aliens
"If that was foreplay, I'm a dead man" from Cocoon
"Fill your hand, you son of a bitch!" from True Grit
"I'm Brian and so's my wife" from Monty Python's Life of Brian
"Hey! Don't drink that poison! It's four dollars an ounce!" from The Marx Bros. A Day At The Races
"Because I just went GAY all of a sudden!" from Bringing Up Baby
"Rosebud" from Citizen Kane
"I proved once and for all that the limb is mightier than the thumb" from It Happened One Night
"All right, Mr. DeMille, I'm ready for my close-up" from Sunset Boulevard
"The trick is not minding that it hurts" from Lawrence of Arabia
"Now I want you to remember that no bastard ever won a war by dying for his country. He won it by making the other poor dumb bastard die for his country" from Patton
"I love the smell of napalm in the morning... it smells like victory" from Apocalypse Now
"I'll have what she's having" from When Harry Met Sally
Surprised no one has mentioned "Frankly, my dear..." but I'm loathe to bring it up myself.
"Did you know that the human brain is the only computer in the universe made of meat?"
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| | | | | | 70. Re: My Americentric Pics | | | | by keta | | | | at Fri 14 Mar 2:48pm | score of 1 | | in reply to comment 42 | | | | | |
Not so Americentric, considering your last three were numbers 5, 6, and 2 respectively on the linked poll. But hell, I didn't find the top ten (of the poll) especially Anglocentric, considering it was done in the UK.
I'd forgotten the classic True Grit line until you cited it...that is one perfect piece of dialogue, and the first thing I think of whenever someone mentions John Wayne. (Well, that and the time I saw him in Bamfield on his yacht, pissed-drunk and damn near falling overboard while balancing a cocktail in one hand and a fishing rod in the other.)
own your words...
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| | | | | 249. Re: You Can't Say America Without The Coens. | | | | by Tbola | | | | at Sat 15 Mar 8:04am | score of 1 | | in reply to comment 42 | | | | | |
"You know, for kids!"
"Damn! We're in a tight spot!
"Nobody knows anybody... not that well."
"Sex? He's a man! We wrestled!"
'And then he calls me a jerk and says the last guy who thought he was a jerk was dead now. So I don't say nothin' and he says, "What do ya think about that?" So I says, "Well, that don't sound like too good a deal for him then." '
"This is what happens when you FUCK A STRANGER IN THE ASS!"
[while robbing cashier]
"..and make it quick, I'm in dutch with the wife. "
"Me, I don't talk much... I just cut the hair "
and most prophetically:
"But what I know about is Texas, and down here... you're on your own. "
Starve them out - block the A.I.
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| | | | | | | 45. Oldies But Goodies | | | | by keta | | | | at Fri 14 Mar 2:26pm | score of 1 | | | | | | |
This is just like television, only you can see much further.
Chance the Gardener, "Being There"
Look, sweetheart, I can drink you under any goddamn table you want, so don't worry about me.
Martha, "Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?"
And two from the mind of Vivian Stanshall, who wrote the script for the little-seen and hard-to-find "Sir Henry at Rawlinson End, (based on his spoken word scripts of the same name):
If I had all the money I'd spent on drink, I'd spend it on drink.
and
If a thing is worth doing, it is worth forcing someone else to do it.
both by Sir Henry
own your words...
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| | | | | | | | 47. A few more as best I can remember | | | | by David Flores | | | | at Fri 14 Mar 2:26pm | score of 1 | | | | | | |
"Luke, I am your father."
"Search your feelings, you know it to be true."
"This one goes to eleven."
"There's such a fine line between clever and stupid."
"That's it, we're dead, it's like... game over, man!"
"Whoops... no bullets!"
"Bring out the Gimp."
"I'm American, baby, our names don't mean shit."
"I see dead people."
"Buy me out? No fuck that, I buy you out."
"We'll make him an offer he can't refuse."
"Sara Connor?"
"Braaaains!"
"We are the knights who say... nee!"
"Bring me... a shrubbery!"
"I fart in your general direction!"
"That... is not my dog...."
"Why don't we split up so we can cover more ground?"
"I'm gonna make you squeal like a pig."
"Louie, this looks like the beginning of a beautiful friendship."
"Round up the usual suspects."
"I'm shocked... shocked to find that there is gambling going on here."
"The problems of two people like you and me don't amount to a hill of beans in this crazy world."
"We'll always have Paris."
"Frankly my dear, I don't give a damned."
"Alive, it's aliiiiiiive!"
"To crush your enemies... to see them driven before you, and to hear the lamentation of the women!"
GAFB and GAFB2
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| | | | | | | 50. I have to go with the title ones | | | | by halfwit | | | | at Fri 14 Mar 2:29pm | score of 1 | | | | | | |
All those moments will be lost in time, like tears in the rain.
That quote really was poetic. I also love the line from the same movie (paraphrased because I haven't seen in in a while), "The candle that burns twice as bright burns half as long. And Roy, your candle has burned oh so brightly."
For comic value, I like the line "Wake up! It's time to die."
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| | | | | | | | 52. The Big Lebowski | | | | by BatGuano | | | | at Fri 14 Mar 2:30pm | score of 1 | | | | | | |
"This is what happens when you FUCK... A STRANGER... IN THE... ASS!"
And, perfect for a movie that takes us back to the magical days before our first war Iraq:
"I'm talking about unchecked aggression, I'm talking about drawing a line in the sand, Dude."
your radio friend, Bat Guano
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| | | | | | 114. Re: The Big Lebowski | | | | by quacksalve | | | | at Fri 14 Mar 4:09pm | score of 1.5 | | in reply to comment 52 | | | | | |
Agreed, although I think there are even more in that one (and I think Raising Arizona is one big list of one-liners). The Coens are underrated.
"Usually, in these types of investigations, we say that anything you can remember would be helpful. But that. Is not. Helpful." (from Barton Fink)
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| | | | | 117. Re: The Big Lebowski | | | | by quacksalve | | | | at Fri 14 Mar 4:13pm | score of 1 | | in reply to comment 114 | | | | | |
BARTON: He . . . I'm trying to think . . . Nothing, really . . . He . . . He said he liked Jack Oakie pictures.
Mastrionotti looks at Deutsch. Deutsch looks at Mastrionotti. After a beat, Mastrionotti looks back at Barton.
MASTRIONOTTI: Ya know, Fink, ordinarily we say anything you might remember could be helpful. But I'll be frank with you: That is not helpful.
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| | | | | 168. Raising Arizona | | | | by BatGuano | | | | at Fri 14 Mar 6:29pm | score of 1 | | in reply to comment 114 | | | | | |
Just a cut-n-paste from here:
Glen: Say that reminds me, how'd you get that kid so darn fast? Me and Dot went in to adopt on account a' somethin' went wrong with my semen, and they said we had to wait five years for a healthy white baby. I said, "Healthy white baby? Five years? What else you got?" Said they got two Koreans and a Negro born with his heart on the outside. It's a crazy world.
H.I. McDunnough: Someone oughta sell tickets.
Glen: Sure, I'd buy one.
...I think the whole script is one big wonderful one-liner. Except there's more than one line in it.
your radio friend, Bat Guano
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| | | | | 172. Re: The Big Lebowski | | | | by Coca Lite | | | | at Fri 14 Mar 6:37pm | score of 1 | | in reply to comment 114 | | | | | |
"The Coens are underrated."
Are you serious? The worst criticism you hear of their movies is 'This movie wasn't as perfect as it would be were we in Movie Heaven.' It's like calling Citizen Kane underrated.
It's not that you're not good enough/It's just that we can make you better.
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| | | | | 323. Re: The Big Lebowski | | | | by quacksalve | | | | at Sun 16 Mar 9:04am | score of 1 | | in reply to comment 172 | | | | | |
I am surrounded by too many non-Coen-appreciators. I think their movies are Movie Heaven ... even their worst ones are miles beyond any crap most people watch. I actually had someone tell me Armageddon was a great movie last week. I managed not to laugh out loud, but it was difficult. So as far as hoi polloi are concerned, they're underappreciated.
Fortunately, Barton Fink and Miller's Crossing are available in May on DVD. HURRAH!! Finally, some good news for a change.
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| | | | | 132. Re: The Big Lebowski | | | | by Eppy | | | | at Fri 14 Mar 4:34pm | score of 2 brilliant | | in reply to comment 52 | | | | | |
Wow, you opened up a Pandora's there:
Donny: Phone's ringing, Dude.
The Dude: He fixes the cable?
Walter Sobchak: Three thousand years of beautiful tradition, from Moses to Sandy Koufax, you're goddamn right i'm living in the fucking past!
Walter Sobchak: Nihilists! Fuck me. I mean, say what you like about the tenets of National Socialism, Dude, at least it's an ethos.
Walter Sobchak: The chinaman is not the issue here, dude. I'm talking about drawing a line in the sand, dude. Across this line, you DO NOT...Also, dude, chinaman is not the preferred nomenclature. Asian-American, please.
Walter Sobchak: You mean... beyond pacifism?
Walter Sobchak: Shut the fuck up, Donny.
Maude Lebowski: My art has been commended as being strongly vaginal which bothers some men. The word itself makes some men uncomfortable. Vagina.
...and, of course:
Walter Sobchak: Fuck it Dude, Let's go bowling.
"ninja, fuck, baby, special olympics"
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| | | | | 144. Re: The Big Lebowski | | | | by bjrubble | | | | at Fri 14 Mar 5:23pm | score of 1 | | in reply to comment 132 | | | | | |
The Dude: What the fuck you talking about?
The winner would definitely be, "He fixes the cable?" That had me falling out of my seat.
I guess one person *can* make a difference, but most of the time they probably shouldn't.
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| | | | | | 53. One soliloquy from Stripes. | | | | by MAYORBOB | | | | at Fri 14 Mar 2:31pm | score of 1 | | | | | | |
"We're all very different people. We're not Watusi, we're not Spartans, we're Americans! With a capital "A," huh? And you know what that means? Do you? That means that our forefathers were kicked out of every decent country in the world!"
Tending to final details.
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